3. "Life will throw everything but the kitchen sink in your path, and then it will throw the kitchen sink. It's your job to avoid the obstacles. If you let them stop you or distract you, you're not doing your job, and failing to do your job will cause regrets that paralyze you more than a bad back."Author: Andre Agassi

4. "I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment."Author: Anselm Kiefer

7. "I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times."Author: Chris Christie

9. "My search for more attributes ended when I was halted in my tracks by the sky in her eyes looking back. I took the ball. And she noticed the sky in my eyes too. Our eyes kissed, and from that moment, we were inseparable."Author: Craig Stone

10. "Heaven and hell could wait.He had paradise right there in his arms."Author: Cynthia Eden

11. "A decision has been called for. The Nodders sit paralyzed. The Men crouch in their various holes. Tradition and Revolution, having spoken, perch high and unflinching. Fear and Loathing quietly cha-cha down the table's length.A distant referee's whistle."Author: Dale McGowan

12. "We stood, separated by space, certainly, in identical conditions of pleasant uncertainty and anticipation, and we both held our hearts in our hands, all pink and palpitating and ready for pleasure and pain, and we were about to throw these hearts in each other's face like snowballs, or cricket balls (How's that?) or, more accurately, like great bleeding wounds: 'Take my wound."Author: Doris Lessing

15. "The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism."Author: Earl Warren

16. "I think creating of any sort, whatever line you're in, is paramount - you can be an architect, you can be a banker, you can be anything - I think that when you create, you're closest to God and yourself."Author: Ellen Greene

17. "Not Exactly TrueThat skin hate is dead.There will never be colorblindness in a culture offear.But when you live afraidof your neighbor, the monsteryou should most walkin terror ofthrives.It starts as a little thing,small enough to burrowinto your pores, take upexcruciating residenceinthe dark recesses of your brain.Its name is paranoia,and it spreads like an oilspill, there inthe shadows,chokes your humanity.Threatens your soul."Author: Ellen Hopkins

19. "But any idiot can see you two are gaga for one another."? As in Lady Gaga? Because I do enjoy riding Wade's disco stick and? playing our own version of poker face. And even though I'm terrified we'll? wind up having a bad romance, leaving me to just dance while watching Wade ride off into the sunset with Alejandro as the paparazzi followed in a frenzy, I can't seem to stop myself from loving him.? I shook the nonsense out of my head."Author: Ethan Day

25. "Have your vote. But know this: if you come to remove me, come in force, because if you try to separate me from him, I will kill every single one of you. My hand won't shake. My aim won't falter. My face will be the last thing you'll see before you die."Author: Ilona Andrews

30. "And that's one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don't try to act it too soon because you start to act it, and you kind of go away from what the next sentence is, what the next paragraph is. So get it down so it kind of can - it's in there so you can then, as I call it, dance on top of it."Author: Jeff Daniels

34. "I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters."Author: Madhur Bhandarkar

35. "I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own."Author: Margaret Fuller

36. "Us atheist people, we believe we have to act properly and honestly for a moral principle and not because we expect an award in Paradise."Author: Margherita Hack

38. "Objectivity is a peculiar demand to make of institutions which, as business corporations, are dedicated first of all to economic survival. It is a peculiar demand to make of institutions which often, by tradition or explicit credo, are political organs. It is a peculiar demand to make of editors and reporters who have none of the professional apparatus which, for doctors or lawyers or scientists, is supposed to guarantee objectivity."Author: Michael Schudson

41. "How could I describe our relationship even to myself without either disparaging it or insulting it with the tawdry decoration of sentimentality?"Author: Olaf Stapledon

42. "A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side."Author: Pauline Hanson

45. "In my view, America has never had the opportunity to enter paradise. Europe enjoys the paradise it enjoys, in part because the United States provides the overall security that allows Europe to live in a system where military power is not a major issue."Author: Robert Kagan

48. "There is evidence that the honoree [Leonard Cohen] might be privy to the secret of the universe, which, in case you're wondering, is simply this: Everything is connected. Everything. Many, if not most, of the links are difficult to determine. The instrument, the apparatus, the focused ray that can uncover and illuminate those connections is language."Author: Tom Robbins